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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

I am totally mesmerized by the deep spacious organy vibe of this odd record. Most of Roy Gaines stuff I have heard is rocking r'n'b, but this is almost a beatnik jazz thing, with some nice country blues campfire harmonica floating around now and then. The equally odd "cu-be-ar" record label I have never seen either and cannot find reference to any other releases, despite this being number 9340-59! Roy gets production credit (and, amusingly enough, writing credit too), so maybe he just cooked up the label for this release. These odd label names often tend be amalgams of the names of the people putting up the money or the artists kids or something, so i'll just imagine Roy's wife was home taking care of Curtis, Bertha and Archer while he got lifted and went all beatific on this ancient song in the studio...

A very shagged richie1250 fresh from doing 7-12 at the penny black and then 12-? filling in for pierre at cherry. Then after the show I go to the noise bar to see uv race and then to yahyah to dj 12-5. Then some sleep and then go play a brides show at The GB in richmond saturday night. NO RETREAT NO SURRENDER!

Playing last Brides gig for a couple months next thursday at the old bar also, with chook race and a rad NZ band called Debutantes, check them out here..

to get off this list, reply saying: 'Rapper Lil B received death threats after announcing the title of his forthcoming album: “I'm Gay.” “I'm very gay, but I love women,” Lil B explained. “I'm not attracted to men in any way. But yes I am gay. I'm so happy. I'm a gay, heterosexual male.”'

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Maaaaaaaaaaad shout out Matlok for putting me onto this pre-wutang footage of "the genius" and his cousins plugging his cold chillin' album on a dodgy public access tv show. They don't quite have the swagger yet, but when old dirty starts beatboxing and gza kicks a rap toward the end, you can see they got the goods...

Here's another one from a few years later when they got that wu-tang swagger in FULL effect...

I love RZA with his black eye being all serious and mean muggin, and at the end when they in a video store or summin and dirty's all wild, sluggin from the brown paper bag and singin Jim Croce and going into some mental screaming freestyle about salamanders that don't even rhyme. The brothers behind trying to look tough and supportive but seem a little worried about where this freestyle is going...

Some of that great mid sixties rare and unreleased chicago syl from the boss box set, new 45's from the uv race and autumn splendor, those darlins, iron curtain, fatti frances, jacky winter, bunch of local stuff I reckon! plus other stuff too...

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Stayed up till 5am finishing this sucker! Damn! It's some bleak shit too. I had to watch about five episodes of The Simpson afterward just to lighten my mind and get me to sleep.It's a testament to how good Ellroy is that all the main character can be engaged in the most morally reprehensible, repugnant activities, and you still care about them and want them come through alright....

It's as hardcore as Ellroys other books, but now the hardcoreness is on a grander scale. We're talking The Kennedy Assasination, Howard Hughes and The Mafia in Vegas, CIA heroin in Vietnam, Scheming to oust Castro in Cuba, Martin Luther King, The Klan, J Edgar Hoover and so forth...

Hoover is one of the best characters actually! We only get him through transcribed telephone conversations but he is gold. Some quotes from him:

"LBJ will deplete his prestige on the home front and recoup it in Vietnam. History will judge him as a tall man with big ears who needed wretched people to love him..." "Cuba appeals to hotheads and the morally impaired. It's the cuisine and the sex. Plantains and women who have intercourse with donkeys."

The book starts just after the JFK assassination, and we basically follow several of the key participants as they tie up loose ends on the hit and engage in all kinds of other high level skulduggery, while trying to deal with all their own personal demons (and you know in an Ellroy book they got some eeeeeeeeeeeeevil demons)...

And Ellroy just keeps getting more minimal with his sentences!

Compare this from The Black Dahlia (1987):

"I fought what was next by concentrating on my landladys cat stalking a bluejay across the garage roof. When he pounced, i admitted to myself how much i wanted johnny vogel's rumour to be true."

"Junior was a hider. Junior was a watcher. Junior lit flames. Junior torched. Junior lived in his head."

At first the minimalism was too much for me and i put it down, but six months later I picked it up again and instantly got deeeeeeep into it.

I just found out when i got to the end that it's actually the sequel to "American Tabloid", which follows some of the same characters in the five years leading up to the JFK hit. So maybe read that first...

Oh yeah, and thanks to Wayne Jobson for giving it to me for my birthday! You a good man, wayne...

The mysterious Archer with be coming to play his mumbled old-time country blues at about 5:45 before his rare live appearance at The Bendigo, and the berobed manly men of barbarion will be coming in about 6:30 to play some ridiculous 80's metal and go ARRRRRR before their film clip launch at the tote on satdee

In between I will play syl johnson, roosevelt sykes, the animals, iron curtain, and other stuff too...

Brides O' Christ putting on a gig at The Bendigo Hotel (on johnston street, the next pub down from the tote toward hoddle) on friday. We has Archer, the Cuckoos and Sambrose Automobile coming down to support, and I is gonna dress the stage up with lotsa lights and bamboo trees and other crap. Should be a ripper! Archer opens at 830, we on at 1120...

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